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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

America is everthing Americans claim China and Russia to be.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (13 children)

I've always thought that if you switch America and Russia/China in most events, it would better fit the narratives.

For example:

America brokered peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

America opened up factories in Afghanistan to provide jobs for the locals who are recovering from a war with China.

America is supporting their ally in Syria and combating terrorists supported by Russia.

Russia went to war with Iraq and killed a million people and destroyed all their infrastructure.

The incarceration rate in China is the highest in the world.

China accused America of spying on them with a weather balloon.

Russia overthrew the Libyan government, spiraling the wealthiest African country into a civil war.


Like seriously, switch the stories around and it better fits the narrative we're constantly being fed. With the view that libs have of Russia, China and America, events would literally have to play out like this if their view was correct.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (11 children)

But to a much lesser extent on some things in the modern day.

For example, China suppressing Uyghurs is on a level the US hasn't done since Japanese concentration camps in WWII. And it's been since maybe the US annexing Texas or manefest destiny since they've done covert or overt invasion like Ukraine, Georgia, Hong Kong, or planning with Taiwan.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is there a country in the Middle East that America hasn't bombed or invaded?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@JohnDClay @turkishdelight Zenz repurposes the pro-life argument that reduced birth rates are genocide to make it look like Xinjiang getting free healthcare & women who had 3 kids already receiving tubal ligations/ etc. is genocide the same way KKK guys think modernity is white genocide. China literally trained these people to be bilingual realtors and stuff like that, it wasn't even a mega trade program or something. They got people to white collar shit Xinjiang is rich

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Were the tubal ligations voluntary?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

@conditional_soup If you've heard of the one child policy here's a fun fact none of you "China watchers" know. Most regions and/or minority groups did not get affected. If you were Han or anything in Tibet, or a minority any placd, you could be fruitful and multiply. Just an example of how China deliberately gives minority groups boosted democratic representation, healthcare access, training, and cultural representation. Which is what responsible nations should do (glaring at indian res)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's an international poker game and everyone is cheating. To see politics through a campist lens helps no one.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (38 children)

Acknowledging that the US has been the leader of the imperial core — the countries that have been colonizing the rest of the world for 500 years now — since WW2 is the realistic, materialist view.

Only difference now is that it's changed form to mainly the economic subjugation (neocolonialism) of "former" colonies through unequal exchange under capitalism rather than direct military subjugation — though the US still has a major actual settler colony committing a genocide in Palestine right now.

Any country that tries to escape this system (by nationalizing its resources to prevent extraction by unequal exchange, usually by establishing a socialist state) is sanctioned (DPRK, Vietnam in the past, Zimbabwe etc), embargoed (Cuba), overthrown (Chile, Burkina Faso etc), or invaded (Vietnam, Libya, Korea, etc).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I don't think America is communist.

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